Re: Unable to connect to network

[Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 20 May 2007, Pete wrote:

> On Sunday 20 May 2007 16:49:46 Jeff D wrote:
> > On Sun, 20 May 2007, Pete wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > I have already posted this once but somehow managed to post into another
> > > thread so it probably got lost.
> > >
> > > Have just installed Etch with Netinstall. No problem. However Epiphany,
> > > Iceweasel and Apt all report that "network is unreachable" or "unable to
> > > connect to network". Network Setting shows quite clearly that eth0
> > > is 'active'. Ping is positive. What am I missing? I have a wired
> > > connection to an adsl router. My laptop running Xubuntu works perfectly
> > > on the same connection. (not at the same time!)
> > >
> > > Thanks to Roberto I have tried /sbin/ifconfig and /sbin/route -n with the
> > > following results
> > >
> > > pete@desktop:~$ /sbin/ifconfig
> > > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:18:A9:C4:3B
> > >           inet addr:192.168.1.3  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
> > >           inet6 addr: fe80::230:18ff:fea9:c43b/64 Scope:Link
> > >           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> > >           RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > >           TX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> > >           RX bytes:1890 (1.8 KiB)  TX bytes:4453 (4.3 KiB)
> > >           Interrupt:177
> > >
> > > lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
> > >           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
> > >           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
> > >           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
> > >           RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > >           TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> > >           RX bytes:560 (560.0 b)  TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)
> > >
> > > pete@desktop:~$ /sbin/route -n
> > > Kernel IP routing table
> > > Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
> > > Iface 192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0    
> > >    0 eth0 0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0
> > >        0 eth0
> > >
> > > Since my first posting I have now installed Xubuntu on a separate
> > > partition on this machine and it works perfectly.
> > >
> > > Any help or comments welcome please.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Pete Redwood
> > > predwood@phonecoop.coop
> >
> > how are you getting your IP address? static? dhcp? Does your laptop and
> > this machine share the same ip?  does name resolution work?
>
> DHCP. Laptop has its own IP address. No idea about name resolution. Not
> certain how to check it
>
> In response to Andrew, not certain if resolv.conf is getting updated. Once
> again not certain how to check. Ping was by IP address. Difficult to be
> pro-active since I cannot email from the Debian partition. I have to check
> everything then go back to the Xubuntu partition to email.
>
>
> --
> Regards
> Pete Redwood
> predwood@phonecoop.coop

look in /etc/resolv.conf . It should look something like this:
search some.domain 
nameserver 127.0.0.1

check to see what is on your laptop, since that one is working and edit 
accordingly. It usually gets set from the dhcp server, if you have a 
router that is supplying this, you might want to check that.


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